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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 2-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Desmond wrote Poverty, by America, how many school children were homeless?
(a) 250,000.
(b) About 500,000.
(c) More than a million.
(d) 2 million.

2. What was the closest large city to where Desmond grew up?
(a) Flagstaff.
(b) Mesa.
(c) Tucson.
(d) Phoenix.

3. At the time Poverty, by America was written how many poor families were headed by a single mother?
(a) 2 in 5.
(b) 2 in 10.
(c) 1 in 3.
(d) 1 in 10.

4. When did unions like the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks and the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America exclude Black workers?
(a) 1950s.
(b) 1940s.
(c) 1960s.
(d) 1970s.

5. What author is quoted in the epigraph?
(a) Chekhov.
(b) Dostoevsky.
(c) Pushkin.
(d) Tolstoy.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Crystal Mayberry born?

2. By July 2022, what was the minimum wage in Emeryvill?

3. In a survey of men and women released from prison in Massachusetts, what percent had witnessed a murder as children?

4. What percent of the U.S. population was poor in 1970?

5. What college did Desmond attend?

(see the answer key)

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